I hope this edition of the Armed American Report finds you well, and I hope you’re not having a hard time staying cool. It’s been one scorcher after another up here!
Carrying concealed is tough in the heat. Sometimes we have to sacrifice on cool, breathable clothes, other times we have to sacrifice our ‘every day carry’ guns, and go to something smaller for the summer.
I know a few guys who carry full sized 1911s in cool weather, but revert back to their trusty snub-nose .38s when the weather is cooler.
The important thing, is that you’re carrying period. Remember- criminals come out of the wood-work in hot weather… especially after dark. So whatever you do… don’t let the hot weather deprive you of your flashlight and gun.
Hey- before we begin, you remember the JPFO, right? Jews for the Preservation of Firearm Ownership? Well, they’ve always been one of my favorite pro-gun groups, because if there has ever been a group of people who understand first hand the consequences of gun-control, it’s Jews.
Another reason I like them, is because they are very much a ‘no B.S.’ group. They don’t tippie-toe around sensitive issues- no way! They’ve put out some great 2nd Amendment documentaries that really, really aught to be shown in ever school.
And, they’ve hit yet another home-run with their latest film, showing that gun control is undeniably racist.
The film is called “No Guns For Negro’s”, and it’s all about how gun control in America began as an attempt to disarm the free blacks following the civil war. It’s a must-watch for you and everyone you know. Here’s what the JPFO says about the film:
“No Guns for Negroes” -exposes the racist history of American gun control laws. Every person who supports gun control laws must be shown this film or gun ownership will cease to exist in America.
Don’t become a former gun owner because you chose not to show “No Guns for Negroes “to every one you know.
You get a copy of the DVD for free if you join the JPFO, or you can watch it (or download it and watch it later) for free from their web site, at this link:
http://www.jpfo.org/filegen-a-m/movieplay-ngn-swf.htm
It’s not a very long film, which makes it perfect ‘lunch hour’ or weekend material. Be sure to give it a spin.
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Sunday, on Armed American Radio!
Coming up this Sunday 6-28-2009 on Armed American Radio, the official radio program of the USCCA, join host Mark Walters, the Ordinary Guy columnist from Concealed Carry Magazine and his guests Mr. Rob Pincus and Mr. Mike Janich. Mark and his guests will be discussing in detail the art of armed and unarmed conflict, situational awareness and diffusing a potential deadly encounter.
Rob and Mike, the hosts of the wildly popular Outdoor Channel television series The Best Defense and The Best Defense-Survival will also be discussing the upcoming season which begins July, 1st 2009. Rob will focus on armed defensive situations, car-jacking, ATM safety, store robberies, etc while Mike will focus on the art of unarmed combat techniques.
Catch the show LIVE at 8pm Eastern on Intelligent Talk 920 WGKA AM in the Atlanta metro area or simulcast live online at www.920wgka.com from anywhere on the planet, simply click the “listen live” button at the top of the page. Can’t catch it live? You can always visit www.armedamericanradio.org the following day to catch the podcast or pick it up on I-tunes! Mark will be taking calls live on the air at 888-920-2665 or 770-226-0920. You may also e-mail the program live and ask your questions at mark@armedamericanradio.org Don’t miss this weeks program or any Armed American Radio Broadcast every Sunday evening from 8-9PM Eastern!
“SELF-DEFENSE WITH THE LONG-GUN: Considering The Concept”
“…So how do you prepare to actually fight with a rifle or shotgun?…”
by CR Williams
As long as I’m talking about my friend up north…
I mentioned that he likes rifles. Has three, and a shotgun, as far as I know. Maybe more, but at least that many. Likes shooting them. Really likes the concept of being a rifleman. You know–one hole at a hundred yards, dime-size group at two-hundred yards, inside a quarter at anything three hundred yards and over. The focused, precise, accurate long-gunner that’s part of American history and maybe part of American mythology.
One of the problems he’s having, though, is that he’s talking to me about it. Remember me? Mr. “It’s The Fight, Silly!” me?
Once again, I’m thinking he probably practices more with his rifle than I do currently, and that he can most likely shoot it better than I can.
What he hasn’t done to date, as far as I know, is to take a rifle off of the 100 (or better) yard range and into a pistol pit and run the same drills with his rifle as he does with his pistol. I’ve done that. And I’m recommending to him, and to you, that you do the same thing with whatever long-gun you have chosen to keep ready as a home-defense weapon.
You may wonder why I recommend that. Here is my thinking:
Whenever the subject of defending yourself and family with a rifle comes up on the USCCA forum, we have one member who invariably reminds us that it is unlikely that we would be able to justify shooting someone that was fifty or a hundred yards or more away. The ‘imminent or immediate’ part of the threat to life would be pretty hard to come by in most cases, he will say.
And as irritating as it may be to some of us reading this, he’s close to being absolutely right about that. Not completely absolutely, mind you–exceptions will always be present that can test the rule–but pretty close to absolutely right about this call.
If that’s true, though–that legally you won’t often find a usefulness out of the rifle or shotgun’s additional range capability–then a reasonable question is: Why even have a long-gun available as a defensive weapon?
There are two additional advantages that rifles or shotguns have over pistols besides range–power and precision. Pistols of almost any caliber have always been considered underpowered weapons whose only claim to desirability has been their handiness (and in modern times, their concealability). We don’t carry pistols because we expect trouble, we carry them in case we get into trouble we don’t see in time to get out of. If you know trouble is coming, the saying goes, get a rifle and get friends with rifles. Rifles and shotguns just hit harder than pistols, and when someone is already inside the front door, hitting hard is what you want. You need them to stop as hard and as quickly as you can make them, and so you grab the long-gun when you can.
The longer sight radius and additional points of contact–shoulder and cheek–also makes for better precision shooting than with a pistol. And even shotguns need precision. Inside of the average home or even to the edge of the average front yard, even buckshot will not spread enough that you can just face somewhere toward the bad guy and close your eyes and still hit. And besides that, even rifles and shotguns work better and faster stopping bad guys if you get Central Nervous System hits; you need precision for that. And besides that, you have as much concern with hitting what you’re aiming at and only what you’re aiming at with a long-gun as you do with a pistol. So take advantage of that extra precision you get and practice using it at the ranges and under the circumstances you’re most like to face in a defensive situation.
What ranges? What circumstances?
Range is easiest. What is the longest line of sight you have in your house or apartment? And, how far is it to the edges of your lawn or yard? In my case, 36 feet and 67 feet, the last my stepped-off measure to the opposite edge of the street in front of my house. Not quite the rifle shot my friend up north envisions, but nothing that law enforcement and military doesn’t face every day either, and they do just fine with long-guns in those situations. If you’ve chosen a shotgun and buckshot for home defense, set targets at those ranges and room and hallway distances and make sure you know where the round you’re using ‘patterns’–the roughly-circular area that the shot will spread (or not) into. You may be surprised at the lack of spread at those short ranges, or you may not, but do it before you have a chance to be surprised for real.
One thing to keep in mind with certain rifles as the range gets in very close: Certain rifles, patterned after military/police weapons, have a front sight post that’s up to two inches above the line of the barrel. If you’re sighting as normal at very close distances, the shot will go low. You need to work a little at the range to understand where to ‘hold’ the sight-line so that you hit where you want to hit when you’re shooting from across the room.
The circumstances where you might use a rifle in defense fall into three categories in my thinking: Proactive, Reactive, and a kind of in-between that I’ll call ‘Prepared Reactive’.
Proactive is least likely. That would be any situation where you have enough warning to have the rifle or shotgun prepared to fight with. This would also be where you’re more likely to have the longer ranges to deal with. An example would be a serious ‘bump in the night’ while you’re still awake.
Reactive, for most people, is more likely than Proactive but not as likely as ‘Prepared Reactive’. An example would be some crazy person driving up and shooting up your house, or a home invasion that comes in the front when you’re in a room in the back of the house. There is time only to access the weapon and fight.
Prepared Reactive seems to me to be the most likely current circumstance where a rifle would be brought into play for defense. The best example is the standard recommendation for the ‘bump in the night’–assume a defensive position in the safe room, cover the entrance with your rifle or shotgun, call for help, and wait it out. You’re reacting to a possible threat, but with a plan you’ve prepared in advance.
There are many variations of these circumstances, but I believe that most if not all situations of self-defense with a long-gun will fall into one of those three categories.
So how do you prepare to actually fight with a rifle or shotgun? The basic answer is to take the long-gun to the same range as you take your pistol, if that’s allowed, and do the same kind of drills with it that you do with your pistol. You will have to change a few things, and there are some differences between having the long-gun in your hands instead of the pistol. Take note of these points in your training:
Obviously, you’re not going to be drawing a rifle from concealment. Substitute two things for that: Firing from different ready positions such as Patrol Ready, Contact Ready, Underarm, and other positions. Also, set the rifle up as it is in your house, move yourself the approximate distance you would be away from it that you would be in different parts of your house, mark out the same route around ‘corners’ and through ‘doors’ as best as you are able, then work on accessing the weapon from a standing (or sitting) start–run the route, pick up the weapon, load or chamber if you don’t normally have it ready to fire, then move back to where the target is and engage. Make the route and the placement as close to the real home as possible. Also, practice a ‘covert ready’–simulate you in, for example, your front doorway with the long-gun out of sight beside the door. ‘Draw’ the weapon on the signal, chamber or disengage safeties, shoulder, aim, fire. When you dry-fire at home–why not do it with the long-gun as well?–walk through the access as you would do it in an emergency.
There are different situations where you would be compelled to be moving through your home with the rifle or shotgun in hand–you can’t always set up in a barricaded place. Simple situations are retreating back to the safe room after you’ve collected a family member, retreating back into the house under fire (and firing back) to get behind cover or concealment, and moving through the house to check out the bump you’re not absolutely sure about or to collect family members to take them back to the safe room. If you even think you might need to do this for real, start practicing it now. You need to work out ready positions while moving in tight quarters (My main hallway is 37″, my interior doors are 29″–add my body thickness to even the shortest legal rifle and careful movement and searching and pieing corners and doorways gets interesting very quickly. Ask me how I know.), how to move both forwards and backwards, think and work out some retention and close-combat techniques and generally ‘wargame’ the process as comprehensively as you can.
You need also to be able to shoot the long-gun from either side and have malfunction clearance procedures in hand. Reloading techniques should, naturally, also be practiced. Understand also that what is cover for a pistol round is likely to be concealment for a shotgun or rifle round and set you plans for use of that accordingly.
That’s about as much as I can recommend without getting too specific. I believe that these basic skill-sets, practiced dynamically and with imagination, could be of great value to you if ever the chips are down on your table.
Two thoughts in closing:
You still need to practice shooting, and you still need to practice–with the rifle, at least–at long range, 100 yards and more. The foundational skills of shooting are important for all firearms.
If you can get training in defensive use of the rifle or shotgun, do so, BUT GET TRAINING WITH THE HANDGUN FIRST. If you are ever forced to use a firearm to defend your life, it will most likely be the pistol. LEARN TO FIGHT WITH THE PISTOL FIRST. Only after that, seek formal training with the rifle or shotgun.
The summary is this: Think FIGHT, no matter what the weapon you have.
It could be important that you do.
It could be life or death.
Armed Response: Training DVDs
A couple months ago, we reviewed one of the DVDs from a company called Armed Response. Cody loved them, and we got a TON of great feedback from those who decided to give them a shot. We also told you that they were working on a couple more, and that we’d let you know when they were finished.
Well we haven’t completely reviewed the new ones yet, but if they are anywhere near as good as the first, we’re going to love them. (I’ve heard they are better). I don’t want this to sound too much like a commercial- I just want to make sure you have all the tools that you need to keep yourself, your family, and your friends safe.
Here are their titles:
-”Fundamentals of Defensive Shooting”
-”Tactics and Techniques for Defensive Shooting”
-”Dynamic Drills for Defensive Shooting”
Good stuff, guys- check them out if you get a second:
Review of Blackhawk’s Be-Wharned Folding Knife
written by Cody S. Alderson
USCCA GEAR REVIEW
I don’t mind so much if something is made in Taiwan as long as it is made with good materials and to demanding design specifications. This week I’m telling you about a folding knife from Blackhawk that happens to be made in Taiwan. I realize through feedback that the point-of-origin for manufacturing is a big issue for many readers. However, the readers of my reviews have wholeheartedly embraced the Kelly Kettle, and it is made in Ireland. Of course there isn’t the “job” issue with the Kelly Kettle as has been mentioned concerning other products, since the Kelly Kettle has always been made in Ireland.
We all must realize that a very powerful force driving US economics is that the majority want the best product at the lowest cost. Then there is a huge volume of customers who want the lowest cost, and they are willing to sacrifice a bit of quality just to obtain a product that they desire. Businesses need customers or they fall to their competitors. So, collectively the issues of US manufacturing jobs can be, in part, blamed on ourselves.
I needed to include that preface for the many readers who outright refuse to even consider a product from Taiwan. Of course guns from Austria are okay, just not stuff from Taiwan. Stick with me through this so I can tell you about a knife that may get overlooked by some just because of where it happens to be made.
There are three components that make this knife a good choice: It’s a Blackhawk product, Michael Janich likes it, and it has a nasty Wharncliffe style blade shape. Let’s talk about the first component which is Blackhawk. Blackhawk’s motto is “Honor as a way of life.” I like that motto because that it is the same lifestyle that my dad taught me. And I happen to like this knife with the Blackhawk name on it. Plus Blackhawk has a warranty on the knife that lasts as long as the life of the original owner.
Secondly, Michael Janich is a renowned blade expert. If you watch Shooting Gallery with Michael Bane, you’ve probably seen Mr. Janich on a couple of episodes. Simply put, dude is lethal wit’ a blade. I don’t know specifically how much of Mr. Janich’s input went into this knife, but if he promotes it as a good self-defense knife, then that works for me.
Thirdly, the blade style is a Wharncliffe shape that has a straight angle taper to the blade tip rather than the curving taper typical of other Wharncliffe’s that I’ve seen. The name of the blade “Be-Wharned” is rather cool too, since it is a play on the blade style and how ferocious this blade can become when wielded correctly. When the knife is open, it looks like an edged weapon that was made to do two things—stab and lacerate. Of course it can cut rope or open a box as well, but that would be like using a warrior as a mall guard.
Overall the knife is 7 7/8 inches long with a blade of 3 1/2 inches that is a hefty 1/8 of an inch thick. The knife body is a half-inch thick, and has a sturdy pocket clip that can be switched for either left or right carry, and even switched to be able to carry the knife tip up or tip down. The blade metal is AUS 8A stainless steel with a satin finish, and the handle liners are made of 420J stainless steel. No rust worries!
I really like a folding knife to have handles made of G10. G10 is layers of fiberglass soaked in resin, put under pressure, and baked into a hard material that is impervious to the elements. The material is tough enough to be machined into its final shape like metal. The G10 handle surface is unyielding in the hand, but as long as it is textured correctly it provides superior gripping capability in all conditions. The handle surface on the Blackhawk Be-Wharned feels like I could grate cheese with it. I like that solid non-slip feel.
The blade has an ambidextrous thumb-assist for opening. This knife differs from other folders that I have had experience with in that there is a round metal protrusion on the liner lock that meets a detent on the blade that keeps the blade solidly closed until the user wants it to open. You can see what I’m referring to in the two images below.
When I first opened the Blackhawk Be-Wharned knife, I thought it was being a bit sticky so I took a closer look. It wasn’t being sticky; it is designed to stay either positively closed or solidly locked open. This is actually a good thing and only takes a few seconds to get used to once the design concept is understood. Once the blade is opened past that tiny detent, it opens the rest of the way as smooth as silk and locks open with a solid click.
There isn’t any movement or loose feeling at all when the blade is locked open. A bit of movement is typical of a cheaper or poorly designed folding knife. This one doesn’t jiggle in the handle one bit. A knife that may someday be used to save my life needs to be made of proven materials and put together into a rock solid design package that I can put a little trust in.
This knife meets those needs so well that instead of keeping it for myself, I’m giving this one to my wife to carry, until I can get another one. She’ll appreciate the small but lethal size of this knife. She’d probably like it better if it was available in other colors, but hey it’s a knife. Don’t tell her I said that. Guys will like it for the same reasons. It doesn’t feel like one is carrying a brick in the pants pocket, and it leaves room for another valuable tool such as a good LED tactical light.
Don’t let the small size and lightness of this knife fool you. In the hands of a competent user, this blade is shaped to stab deep enough that bleeding out will be quick. It is also sharp enough and sturdy enough to open up meat all the way down to the bone on an attacking sociopath. Nasty stuff to think about in polite society, but a self-defense knife may need to be able to do the nasty job of saving your life some day.
Got an adult son or daughter in college in a state where they can’t carry guns but can carry a folding knife? Get them some training with a knife like this. After a bit of hands on training and some resolve to fight to live, a man or woman with a knife in hand has an extreme advantage over an empty-handed defender.
At $99.99 retail the Blackhawk Be-Wharned is a good bargain. A savvy shopper can probably pick it up at a lower price from a dealer. Check out the Be-Wharned and other Blackhawk Products at:
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Dear Tim,
I am not writing to ask a question, I am writing to say thanks for the Beat the Ban. I thought I was ahead of the curve, but only realized I had been putting off buying what I may need and what I really wanted before the Obamanation takes place. I wanted to beat the ban.
I was going to joke and say your Beat the Ban cost more than 17.00 dollars, hell I bought a Saiga 12 Shotgun overpaid but got it anyway and to 2 RRA AR15s at retail cost due to having a gunsmith relationship. I also bought some fantastic 5.56 ammo and over 2k rounds of practice ammo.
My next purchase will probably be an SKS or AR47. I have read a great deal more about my rights to arm myself and to protect my country from a threat.
Thanks for placing me ahead of the curve and your book only cost me over 2800.00 dollars in guns and ammo. Well lets just say it was a good investment in my family’s future! Best to you and your family and may you continue with success and great health.
-Mike P.
Proud USCCA Member
Proud Member of the NRA
Proud American!
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How easy it is to become a criminal . . .
My wife and I took a ride down to Ripley West Virginia on Sunday to be there for the last day of the Thomas Family Reunion that is held every year at the Jackson County Fairgrounds. Now of course we wanted the carry weapons to come with us because our Pennsylvania permits are good in West Virginia.
The fastest way to get there requires us to pass into Ohio twice on the way down and twice on the way back. I find it absolutely incredible that if I have my gun on me, I instantly would become a criminal when I cross over a geopolitical boundary line if I’m still carrying my gun. Then when I pass over the next line, I’m a law abiding citizen again.
I figured it might be okay if the weapons got locked up in a steel case on the floor behind the driver’s seat while going through Ohio. The ammo was going to removed and put in a separate location (the glove compartment). To tell you the truth, I’m not even sure that method would still be okay when transporting a handgun across state lines.
Maybe those who live in communist states, er I mean states that don’t want Pennsylvanians carrying guns through their states can tell me what the different rules are. I can’t keep track of this stupidity by myself.
I wish that every single politician in this country would read this little forum post written by a guy who just wants to be able to protect himself and his loved ones from the chance sociopath who would target us to maim or kill us. I would absolutely be thrilled to be at one of these “borders” standing on the side where I’m a legally carrying law abiding citizen with a bunch of reporters standing around to see me have to decline shaking hands with a politician on the other side of the “border” because it would make me a criminal when I crossed that line.
Anyone who follows a normal pattern of logical thinking would then realize that some things are just plain stupid. Probably nothing would be done about it, but it sure would be nice to point it out to the masses.
This same logic applies to schools, federal buildings, court houses, post offices, and in some places restaurants that serve alcohol. If I’m considered by my peers to be an OK enough guy to carry my gun in some places, I want everyone to know that I’m still the same guy when I cross over these little NO YOU CAN’T lines that are every where!
Control is an illusion that comforts the weak. Training and preparedness gives the true advantage against the element of our society who would rape, maim, or kill us. Over and over again we hear about the “reasonable man” in reference to law. What would a reasonable man do? Think about that for a moment. What reasonable man, woman, or even child would think that a law to control would have any effect on a lawbreaker who has no issue with breaking the number one law against murder?
Anyway, now that I step off of the soapbox, what non-resident permit can I get as a Pennsylvania resident that will allow me to carry in Ohio?
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Customer service error in gun store?
I watched this little drama unfold in my local gun store recently. I have my own ideas about it, but I’m interested in your perspectives on what might have been done differently.
General background: Local gun store with indoor range. Customers in the store (6 including me) at least two of whom were off duty LE. Two counter sales guys.
Sales guy A is showing a few small concealable guns to a customer, while I stand a few feet away staring at the display and mentally counting my remaining disposable income. The other customers are milling around the store, but generally in view of the counter.
The customer is looking for something really small, that he can wear with a suit, and has asked to see a NAA .22 mag revolver, among the others he is considering. While I watch ( I always look at this process to make sure that neither the sales guy nor the customer is inadvertently pointing the gun in my direction…..old habit!) The customer is saying how small the gun is. He seems to think it cannot be very dangerous because it is not very big. (warning light begins to blink in my mental heads up display - this guy is a newb)
As he is saying how small and ineffective the gun ‘must be’, he is sort of ‘practice aiming’ the gun at various points around the store. The Sales guy says to please aim the gun at the ’safe - aim here’ target they have posed up high and on a solid wall in the store. (thank you!)
As he is warning the customer, who is not really listening, and I am beginning my dodge and weave to stay out of the path of a gun I know is empty, but still don’t want pointed at me, the customer does this:
He sticks the gun right up to the sales guy’s face (!!!) while saying, “But wouldn’t you have to be about THIS close to do any damage with this thing?”
Several interesting things happen more or less immediately.
The sales guy freezes for a second or two and then reaches up and pops the gun out of the customer’s hand with a quick sort of two handed slap. The customer is surprised and starts to bristle at being whacked, and the salesman says to him, “I’m going to ask you to leave the store now.”
I notice the two off duty LE guys moving to better positions in the store, out of the corner of my eye. This is while I am backing slowly off line from the center of the action. Yes, I am armed, but not a cowboy, here.
The customer says, “What? What’s up? You can’t just hit me…” Then he trails off as he realizes what he has just done. He looks around and picks up his stuff and walks out the door. One of the LE guys walks to the door to make sure he is leaving, and then the discussion ensues.
But here is the weird part. The second sales guy, who had no part in the drama, is the store manager. I know this guy pretty well, but I’m surprised to hear him say that guy A made a bad choice by assaulting a customer. He seems to think that this was bad customer service, since the salesman KNEW that the gun was empty (since he had just handed it to the customer and verified same). He was actually appearing to be more concerned with not offending a customer than with maintaining good gun safety.
I gently mentioned (remember, I don’t work there) that its good to treat EVERY gun as if it was loaded, all the time. Maybe this customer will not be back to this store…maybe he will. But I guarantee that he will always remember that lesson.
So, here is my question: Was this a customer service error or a hard lesson in gun etiquette that happily ended without injury to anything except pride?
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Looking for a small light weight pocket semi with a safety. I want the safety for the grand kids. Any suggestions are appreciated! ty, Dixie
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== Video of the Week ==
USCCA VIDEO OF THE WEEK
Police can’t be everywhere at every moment. There were civilians here, but only one account of someone even trying to intervene. This video is a sad and tragic commentary of what can happen at anytime, to anyone, anywhere. If a human is capable of committing such horrific violence on a child, then there is no limit to what evil is lurking in our society. I wish you all to be trained, be prepared, and be safe.
== “Tim-spiration” of the Week ==
USCCA PHOTO OF THE WEEK
All Photos of the Week are taken from Mr. Oleg Volk’s
website: http://www.a-human-right.com/. It is a
FANTASTIC site. Please check it out!
USCCA QUOTE OF THE WEEK
- Sometimes a good quote will inspire or motivate you. Sometimes, they’ll just put a smile on your face! Here is the quote for this week…
Have you been a little slack in defending your right? Just to remind everyone, here’s a quote that is representative of the other side:
“I didn’t think the gun was loaded.”
-A. Moron
“Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him.”
-Bruce Lee
Self Defense Story OF THE WEEK
- Every day, thousands of Armed Americans use their firearms to preserve human life. Let this section of my newsletter serve as a record of this fact!
- Wife of an alleged drug trafficker defends her life against criminals posing as US Marshals after they shot her husband and 9 year-old daughter.
From: CNN
Rogue Minutemen Leader Held In Fatal Home Invasion
SEATTLE, Washington (CNN) — Raul Flores thought federal agents had barged with guns drawn into his home in Arivaca, Arizona, in the middle of the night. The woman and two men wore uniforms and identified themselves as U.S. Marshals. They claimed the house was surrounded. They said they were looking for an escaped prisoner, Flores’ wife told a 911 dispatcher.
But there was no backup waiting outside, and no fugitive. The marshals were imposters. They had targeted Flores because they suspected he was a drug trafficker and they wanted to rob and kill him, according to the Pima County Sheriff’s Department.
As the intruders searched his home, Flores asked one of the men why his handgun was taped. The man responded by shooting and killing Flores.
“Someone just came in and shot my daughter and husband,” Flores’ wife frantically told 911. She tells the police operator that she was shot and left for dead with her husband, Raul Flores, 29, and daughter Brisenia, 9, who were both shot in the head.
Police are not releasing the woman’s name to protect her identity. But her 911 call, released to the media by the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, tells the story of a deadly home invasion by a rogue band of impostors. As she describes the initial attack, the intruders return to the house. The door can be heard opening.
“They are coming back in! They are coming back in!” the caller screams. She has armed herself with her husband’s handgun. “Get the f— out,” she barks. The order is followed by the explosive sound of gunfire traded as the wounded woman and her would-be killers fire on each other. A man—one of the intruders— is hit and groans loudly. The attackers retreat and leave the woman alive and alone with her slain family.
Twelve days later police have the “marshals” in custody on charges of first-degree murder, burglary and aggravated assault. Police identified the suspects as Shawna Forde, 41, of Buena Vista, Arizona; Jason Eugene Bush, 34, of Kingman, Arizona; and Albert Robert Gaxiola, 42, of Tucson, Arizona.
As police put her into a car, Forde told reporters, “I did not do it.” The Pima County public defender’s office, which represents Forde, Bush and Gaxiola, did not return CNN’s calls requesting comment.
Authorities from five different police departments in three states are investigating crimes allegedly involving the trio. Forde’s arrest has had even greater reverberations across a community of private citizens who believe the government is not adequately protecting the nation’s borders.
There’s more to this story. Read it HERE.
Closing Thoughts
Okay, do you remember a couple weeks ago, when I bounced someone’s question off of you about reloading empty brass?
Well, I’ve made a web-page with everyone’s mailed in responses- I got some good ones! So if you might get into reloading, be sure to check out this veteran-advice beforehand!
http://deltamediallc.com/aar/reloading.html
For this week, I’d like to see if I can pick your brain on this question from a USCCA member. Just use the ‘ask Tim’ form after the question to post your feedback. I’ll share the feedback I get from everyone else with you early next week!
Question:
I have arthritis in my fingers and cannot fire a weapon with much trigger pull. I got a 1911 that I can use but want to find a pocket gun that has a light trigger pull and a slide that it not difficult to move. Any suggestions would be welcome. -Thank you.
Do you have a pressing concern? Use the ‘Ask Tim’ contact form found at this page to let me hear your advice. Just use the graphic below!
Tim Schmidt
Founder - U.S. Concealed Carry
http://www.usconcealedcarry.com
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